My refusing to eat flesh occasioned an inconveniency, and I was frequently chid for my singularity.

They that can give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.

Poverty often deprives a man of all spirit and virtue; it is hard for an empty bag to stand upright.

Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it.

Lawyers, Preachers, and Tomtits Eggs, there are more of them hatch'd than come to perfection.

Grievances cannot be redressed until they are known; and they cannot be known but through complaints and petitions. If these are deemed affronts, and the messengers punished as offenders, who will henceforth send petitions? And who will deliver them? Wise governments encouraged the airing of grievances, even those that were lightly founded Foolish governments did the opposite - to their peril. Where complaining is a crime, hope becomes despair.

Reckless youth makes rueful age.